USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892.

Detailed explanation-2: -The AA went on strike at Bessemer Steel in 1882 to prevent management from using a nonunion clause in workers’ contracts, and at the Homestead Steel Works in 1889 after negotiations with management failed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Frick began by cutting the workers’ wages, which the workers protested by starting the Homestead Strike. In late June Frick locked them out and fenced off the plant. On July 2 he fired all 3, 800 workers.

Detailed explanation-4: -With Carnegie’s carte blanche support, Frick moved to slash wages. Plant workers responded by hanging Frick in effigy. The union fought not just for better wages, but also for a say in America’s new industrial order. Though Carnegie and Frick had brought unions to heel at their other mills, Homestead remained untamed.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union. A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries.